Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 6, 2018

On the first day of school, my students complete a detailed student survey. It is designed to collect basic information and help me get to know my new students. The more I know about them, the easier it is for me to design and facilitate learning opportunities that will appeal to them. I also hope that taking the time to ask them questions, instead of simply inundating them with information, will communicate my genuine interest in them as individuals.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2018

MTI 558: How to Leverage Tech to Teach Writing. This college-credit class starts in one week–Monday, August 13th! Last chance to sign up. Click this link ; scroll down to MTI 558 and click for more information and to sign up. Click to view slideshow. MTI 563: The Differentiated Teacher. MTI 563 starts in one week–Monday, August 13th! Last chance to sign up.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 6, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. Watch teenagers using social media, and you witness an emotional rollercoaster: they are intermittently ecstatic, furious, envious, heartbroken, charmed, anxious, obsessive, and bored. Research has begun to zero in on nearly every part of this spectrum, with findings that run from alarming (screen time is linked to depression and suicide ) to reassuring (many teens

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 6, 2018

Why Parents Don’t Understand How To Help by Terry Heick Jargon is a necessary evil. Simply put, jargon helps us be more specific. Pilots in planes don’t ‘go up,’ they ‘gain altitude.’ Forwards in basketball don’t simply “score,” but rather face up the defender to jab step, finishing with an up-and-under move for an ‘and-one.’ They […].

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eSchool News

AUGUST 6, 2018

As a leader in a district in Indianapolis with nine schools and limited resources, I’m well aware of the fact that most districts don’t have the time or money to devote to one-off workshops and training sessions that may or may not improve instruction. An effective, efficient professional development (PD) initiative has a few key components: It must be grounded in a culture of student achievement, it needs to be systematized, and it needs to be based in student need.

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TeacherCast

AUGUST 6, 2018

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we welcome teacher and author Bethany Petty on the podcast to discuss how teachers are creating engaging and dynamic lessons with technology in their classrooms. Together we discuss Blended Learning, Flipped Learning, Gamification, and her new book Illuminate from EdTechTeam Press. The post How Can We Enhance Learning Through Technology Integration?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 6, 2018

With the pervasive use of technology inside our classrooms, pedagogical concerns related to the effectiveness of technology in transforming education and creating optimal learning experiences come to.

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 6, 2018

Ditch That Quiz with Pear Deck Guest Blog post by Mike Mohammad In their book, Ditch That Homework, Alice Keeler and Matt Miller call for a shift in what work in the classroom looks like in order to eliminate the need for students to do the traditional homework that leaves students spending hours mindlessly practicing […]. The post Ditch That Quiz with Pear Deck by @mo_physics appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 6, 2018

Blended learning is a pedagogical approach to learning and teaching that marries digitality with classroom learning activities. It is both a mode of instruction and learning that has different models.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 6, 2018

How is it already MID-AUGUST?!?!?! I just got back from Digital Pedagogy Lab , a week full of people sharing resources that can be implemented in our classes, if we start thinking about it [looks at calendar - weeps] now. But in order of ease, here are some things to get you started thinking about your teaching in the (sigh) fall. Syllabus: Do your students do public, digital projects?

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Teacher Tech

AUGUST 6, 2018

Ditch That Quiz with Pear Deck Guest Blog post by Mike Mohammad In their book, Ditch That Homework, Alice Keeler and Matt Miller call for a shift in what work in the classroom looks like in order to eliminate the need for students to do the traditional homework that leaves students spending hours mindlessly practicing […]. The post Ditch That Quiz with Pear Deck by @mo_physics appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2018

MAFRAQ, Jordan — Syrian refugee children at a settlement near the Jordan-Syria border on April 26, 2018. Photo: © Mohammad Abu Ghosh/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire. There are many things people don’t know about life in my home country of Syria. First, it was an incredibly beautiful, and incredibly normal, place in which to grow up. My friends and I were typical teenagers who looked forward to going out on Friday nights and the arrival of summer break.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 6, 2018

5 Ways To Engage Reluctant Learners contributed by Kristina J. Doubet, Ph.D and Jessica A. Hockett, Ph.D. We’ve all been there. Slumped bodies, rolled eyes, defiant words, and off-task behaviors announce (not-so-subtly) that instruction isn’t “working.” So what can teachers do to encourage participation and task completion when students are reluctant to participate or complete […].

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2018

Jackie Brenner, 18, practicing yoga in the yard of a family friend’s home in Bryn Mawr, Pa., in July. Through her nonprofit, Piece of Peace, she teaches others how to live healthy lives. Photo: Michelle Gustafson for The New York Times. Student’s Nonprofit Helps Promote Peace. Two years ago, when Jackie Brenner was 16, she was struggling to recover from a difficult knee surgery and to deal with her mother’s fight with breast cancer.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Cycles of Learning

AUGUST 6, 2018

I have written many times before about the connection between the 5E learning cycle and Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey. Click here for a diagram that pairs the two processes together well. Perhaps the most important part of the shifting one's instruction to an inquiry learning cycle approach is challenge of "Calling Students to Adventure", engaging them by strategically sparking their curiosity.

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

Certiport , a Pearson VUE business, today announces a certification program for secondary schools and higher education in partnership with EC-Council, a global provider of cybersecurity education. Certiport and EC-Council will launch the EC-Council Associate Series certification exams, practice tests, and curriculum beginning in fall 2018 starting with the Ethical Hacking Associate (EHA) and Cyber Forensics Associate (CFA) exams.

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MiddleWeb

AUGUST 6, 2018

One reason math educator Michelle Russell loves being a teacher is because every year she gets "a reset." After a summer spent in part reflecting, she's set two goals for fall: improving communications with families and helping kids focus on the positive every day.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 6, 2018

With 10 million students in grades K-12 struggling to read, taking those struggling readers from disengaged to enthused may seem like a huge feat. However, doing just one thing to take action can cause a wave of reaction throughout the entire school. In a recent edWebinar , Nelda Reyes, a dyslexia interventionist at De Zavala Elementary in San Marcos CISD, TX, shared how she was able to establish a culture of reading at her school by creating a sense of belonging, building awareness, and never t

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MindShift

AUGUST 6, 2018

Excerpted from “ LEARNING HOW TO LEARN: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying ” by Barbara Oakley, PhD, and Terrence Sejnowski, PhD, with Alistair McConville, published by TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright (c) 2018 by Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski.

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

If we have heard it said once, we have heard it said 1,000 times: Professional Development is Broken For every time we have heard that said, we have also heard suggestions on how to fix it. Back in 2014, I made such an attempt , and although it was successful not only for our district, but for other districts as well, disruption in the professional learning space, has been limited.

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SETDA Says

AUGUST 6, 2018

SETDA encourages state agencies, school districts, and other education stakeholders to provide public comments for the FCC, Notice of Proposed Rule Making: Transforming the 2.5 GHz Band by the deadline Wednesday (August 8) or to reply to comments posted by September 7. Specifically, education leaders can express support for maintaining EBS’s educational nature, especially as a wireless broadband […].

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

Museum Box Curate a bit of history in a box with this unique creation site Pros: It's easy to create a box that fits your project perfectly; layers allow for real depth of learning. Cons: It can be a little clunky interface-wise, and there's more guidance for teachers than students. Bottom Line: The perfect place to show off a collection or put together a history project using multimedia. [ Teach Ethics, Critical Thinking With Today's Top App ] Read more.

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This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2018

5 Steps K-12 Schools Need to Consider When Moving to the Cloud. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 08/06/2018 - 13:11. In recent years, cloud computing has gained momentum among K–12 school districts, following expectations , as personalized learning, connected classrooms and one-to-one device programs add a significant strain to school networks. Districts integrating cloud computing are able to tackle broadband and network capacity issues — one of the top three focus points for K–12 IT professionals — as

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

Peerless-AV® announces the launch of its Motorized Collaboration Cart (SR598ML3). The Motorized Collaboration Cart now integrates the use of actuators, making it easy for users to raise and lower touch-enabled displays. Designed for applications such as education and corporate settings, the cart interacts with touch-enabled technology. The Motorized Collaboration Cart is ADA-compliant, offering display height adjustment up to 25.6".

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

QwertyTown 2.0 maintains its keyboarding and digital literacy fundamentals while incorporating a range of new features and upgrades. QwertyTown is a web-based keyboarding app that teaches typing, digital literacy, and online communication skills through gamification features, social motivation and engaging lessons and challenges. [ TypingMaster Introduces Gamified Keyboarding Curriculum for All Grade Levels ] QwertyTown 2.0 was rebuilt from the ground up in HTML5 making it compatible on any devi

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

If the old journalism dictum that three news stories on a subject makes a trend, then the controversial topic of using facial recognition in schools certainly passes the test. Yesterday’s top story in the News-Pressnow interviews Dr. Robert Sigrist, director of student services for the St. Joseph School District (MO): “I think it’s such a new technology that probably there would have to be some pretty serious thought go into something like that.

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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

Electrosonic EMEA is pleased to announce that it has qualified as an AVIXA AV Provider of Excellence (APEx). AVIXA APEx is a marketing recognition program for integration companies and AV design consulting firms dedicated to upholding industry excellence by providing quality service to customers. “The APEx designation gives AV companies a mark of distinction in the marketplace,” says David Labuskes, CTS, RCDD, who is Executive Director and CEO of AVIXA.

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

August 7th is National Lighthouse Day. Did you ever wonder how the lights of lighthouses can be seen from so far away? Discover how and who is credited with the invention that made these life saving navigation aids possible. [ Amelia Earhart Day ] Courtesy of Knovation.

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